MEREDITH BEAN McMATH
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Author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian Meredith Bean McMath is the Managing Director of Run Rabbit Run Productions, Inc. and Run Rabbit Run Theatre company.

Her works include original plays, documentaries and living history presentations on behalf of museums and preservation groups which include The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, The Waterford Foundation, The National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, The Newseum, and The Museum of The Shenandoah Valley.

Through RUN RABBIT RUN THEATRE, McMath brings together area artists to produce high caliber theatre productions. From its very first production - the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival production of McMath's satire, Case 22 -  Run Rabbit Run has won critical acclaim for its stage adaptations and musicals, contemporary and original plays.

McMath holda a BA in History from the The College of William and Mary and an MS in Arts Administration from Shenandoah University.


Free classes presented by Meredith Bean McMath
through Loudoun County, Virginia Public Libraries

APRIL 2019

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— July & August 2019 --


ALL FOR THE UNION
in Confederate Virginia


DATES TBA - JULY at The Capital Fringe Festival,DC
AUGUST: Aldie Mill (East of Middleburg, VA) & Goose Creek Meeting House, Lincoln, VA

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ARTICLES ABOUT McMATH...
  • SURVIVAL SECRETS OF A SOUTHERN WOMAN PLAYWRIGHT by Diane Helentjaris, Medium.com 2019
  • PLAYWRIGHT'S CIVIL WAR TALE RETOLD ON FILM, by Arianne Aryanpur for The Washington Post
  • RUN RABBIT RUN THEATRE, by Nancy Wyatt, My Persuasive Presentations, LLC
  • HERITAGE LECTURE PROGRAM on the NORTON OPERA to be presented by McMath, Chavez and Loudoun Lyric Opera, The Chautauquan Daily, 2014

ARTICLES BY McMath...
  • THREE WOMEN JOURNALISTS OF THE CIVIL WAR, Waterford Foundation Website (with bibliography)
  • READ MORE...


CURRENT SERVICE
Marketing Director and Board member for VSA - Loudoun County, the nonprofit organization dedicated to providing arts and theatre arts opportunities for the disabled and their families.

Former Service
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Marketing Director and Board Member of the Loudoun Lyric Opera; Board of Directors member of the Loudoun Arts Council and Loudoun Youth Initiative; Member of the Leesburg Performing Arts Center Economic Task Force; a Region IVb Grant Panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts; Theatre Judge for The Loudoun Arts Council's annual Gale Waldron Excellence in the Arts awards.

EDUCATION
  • BA History, The College of William and Mary (Member Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society)
  • MS Arts Management - Shenandoah University (Concentration: Arts Marketing; Recipient of the Graduate Student Award).

HISTORY HONORS
  • League of Women Voters Award for advancing the knowledge of women's History, Loudoun County, VA
  • Loudoun History Award for "Significant contribution to Loudoun History, Thomas Balch History Library, Leesburg, VA
  • League of Women Voters of Loudoun Award for “Advancing the awareness of women’s history”

THEATRE HONORS
  • Best Director of a Musical, DC Metro Theatre Arts “Best of 2012” for Once Upon A Christmas Carol
  • ​Arts Administration Graduate Award, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA
  • “Women with Vision" Honor, Franklin Park Arts Center, Purcellville, VA
  • First Prize for the play, “Sticks and Stones”, Source Theatre, WDC

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In this July 2018 interview, Nancy Wyatt of My Persuasive Presentations takes a close look at Run Rabbit Run Theatre and McMath's work:

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My evocative conversation with Meredith reminded me of the adage given to actors using the Acting Stanislavski method. It states that, while performing, they should listen and respond, not just memorize their lines and speak from rote. Meredith lives Method Acting in a real-life expressive discourse..."

 
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